What Tanizaki Knew in 1933 and Five Billion Users Are Learning Too Late
In 1933, as imperial Japan electrified itself at a forced pace and Western architects exported alongside their blueprints a particular idea of the good life, a writer from Osaka published a short essay on light and its consequences. Junichiro Tanizaki was neither a politician nor an economist. He was a novelist attuned to textures, to … CONTINUE READING →